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  • He recalled, with vivid detail, the meeting inside Castel Gandolfo that had changed his life… the news that had set this entire calamity into motion.†   (source)
  • After the calamity of Maxon visiting earlier this week, I decided sending them out as early as possible was the best way to go.†   (source)
  • Since I know it is all for Christ's good, I am quite content with my weaknesses and with insults, hardships, persecutions and calamities.†   (source)
  • After a period of tense negotiations, money was allotted and a potential calamity averted.†   (source)
  • Calamity.†   (source)
  • It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies—inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities—made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me; but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.†   (source)
  • Calamity Jane.†   (source)
  • Etienne sees it as a calamity, but Madame Ruelle radiates glee.†   (source)
  • But I cannot find my voice to do anything about these future calamities, because it is someone's idea of inspirational to release the bobbing weapons.†   (source)
  • Cecilia was not inclined to help—it was too hot, and whatever she did, the project would end in calamity, with Briony expecting too much, and no one, especially the cousins, able to measure up to her frenetic vision.†   (source)
  • When the will of the goddess had been done, he sat down in his obi and mourned his friend's calamity.†   (source)
  • They're just another distant calamity.†   (source)
  • My son, fear the Lord and the King, and meddle not with them that are given to change, For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruin of them both?†   (source)
  • It was a good thing she hadn't said anything, because when Tita returned to the ranch after hearing about their calamity, Chencha's pious lie would have been shattered by Tita's splendid beauty and radiant energy.†   (source)
  • It didn't feel like I was in the middle of a calamitous event the moment she stole me away from my life.†   (source)
  • Then, whenever war or some other calamity occurred, they would be able to view events throughout Alagaesia.†   (source)
  • How to Survive 101 Calamities was the name of the book, which covered what to do in any dire situation—falling elevators, train wrecks, theater fires exetera.†   (source)
  • A woman in the rear seat was trying to stand, pulling at her leather hood and sounding off as if she'd suffered a great calamity.†   (source)
  • "A few calamities," Father answered.†   (source)
  • On the. contrary, it would-at the very least-amuse us and give at least a glimpse of our fellow travelers" souls before the Shrike or some other calamity distracts us.†   (source)
  • "You will have heard of our great calamity," Olmsted wrote to his friend Gifford Pinchot.†   (source)
  • We recognize in them a personal calamity that is particular to its time but that has the universality of great suffering and despair and courage, of a "victim" seeking to wrest control over his own life away from the condition that has controlled him.†   (source)
  • It occurred to her, in a moment of sudden clarity, that what had always caused her anxiety, or stress, or worry, was not any one force, nothing independent and external—it wasn't danger to herself or the constant calamity of other people and their problems.†   (source)
  • She would hire herself out somewhere, and although she was afraid to leave Sethe and Beloved alone all day not knowing what calamity either one of them would create, she came to realize that her presence in that house had no influence on what either woman did.†   (source)
  • A foolish son is the calamity of his father.†   (source)
  • Steffie, brought close to tears by a sitcom husband arguing with his wife, appeared totally absorbed in these documentary clips of calamity and death.†   (source)
  • Because of a calamitous car crash.†   (source)
  • And I was already seeing myself as a character in a disaster movie, thinking of how I'd save my new bride during the calamity apparently to come.†   (source)
  • In these evil days, with a calamitous War looming ever nearer in the distance, a Mother's chief hope is that her dearest ones, of which I have only you remaining, should be safe and sound.†   (source)
  • There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza had once read: "Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity."†   (source)
  • A violent calamity of color spilled over the sky as the sun dipped beneath the horizon.†   (source)
  • Our parents had decided to put an end to their calamitous marriage, and Father shipped us home to his mother.†   (source)
  • I was thinking, though, that if you don't come along with us, and if there is some awful stormy calamity, we're every last one of us liable to be lost at sea, you know that?†   (source)
  • The children were fed, Milo, touchingly subdued and apologetic, nestling close to his sister's side and whispering to her how he had tried to get ma to wait and come down to the Settlement, and hungrily begging with his pathetic childish eyes for her to say that this thing which had come upon them was not, after all, the calamity he feared.†   (source)
  • In searing headlines, it announced: THE GREAT CALAMITY OF THE AGE!†   (source)
  • I wanted to weep at how my friends took my calamity in stride.†   (source)
  • (continued from prior page)…. you're curious: Catfish always drink alcoholic ether if begged, for every catfish enjoys heightened intoxication; gross indulgence can be calamitous, however; duly, garfish babysit for dirty catfish children, helping catfish babies get instructional education just because garfish get delight assisting infants' growth and famously inspire confidence in immature catfish, giving experience (and joy even); however, blowfish jeer insightful garfish, disparaging…†   (source)
  • Augustus's appetite was a kind of natural calamity.†   (source)
  • In China, a neo-Confucian saying from the Song Dynasty declares: "For a woman to starve to death is a small matter, but for her to lose her chastity is a calamity.†   (source)
  • The rest of that winter, in his own basement, Mortenson obsessed about reports he was receiving detailing a calamity developing in northern Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • "We—the animals, that is—built them several years back, to avoid just this sort o' calamity."†   (source)
  • And dying now would be such a calamity, wouldn't it?'†   (source)
  • It began like any other calamity that strikes the poor but quickly took on the characteristics of a divine punishment.†   (source)
  • Hungry Joe was too firmly embedded in calamities of his own to care how Doc Daneeka felt.†   (source)
  • Hema turned back to probe once more that calamitous space in Sister Mary Joseph Praise's body where two lives were in jeopardy.†   (source)
  • Like the Parliament, he had acted thus far in a spirit of moderation, he said, and he was "anxious to prevent, if it had been possible, the effusion of the blood of my subjects, and the calamities which are inseparable from a state of war."†   (source)
  • Christ, he had only seconds before the driver of the Komitet car started up the engine and roared into the huge dirt lot, circling it and racing out, both actions announcing the government vehicle's arrival and swift, calamitous departure.†   (source)
  • We have to find allies within the bureaucracy if this is not going to end in calamity.†   (source)
  • He remembered Brand's brave loyalty to Maggie Cantwell in her calamity, and he had been proud of the way the youth had stepped into the role of brother to Charity and Seth, taking up the responsibilities of the Merrill farm after Jakob Merrill died.†   (source)
  • The lines in his face look as if each one were put there by a distinct calamity rather than a slow accumulation of sorrow.†   (source)
  • Onward, please, through the connecting door and into the final space, where stands the elaborate containment vessel in which 89-58 now lives and, barring any unforeseen and calamitous developments, in which he will spend the rest of his unnatural life.†   (source)
  • "I know the plans that I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope." — JEREMIAH 29:11†   (source)
  • "It was these calamities that transformed my people into slavers," Galazza Galare had told her, at the Temple of the Graces.†   (source)
  • But neither one has an inkling about the calamity that is now just eight months away.†   (source)
  • Well, that may be vicious, unjust, calamitous-but such is life in society.†   (source)
  • MARTHA (Sternly, to HONEY) Some people feed on the calamities of others.†   (source)
  • I can argue that mankind is a far worse calamity.†   (source)
  • I can tell you it would have been a terrible calamity if you'd succeeded.†   (source)
  • In going to funerals, I've come to believe that while I wait to make a grand heroic gesture, I should just stick to the small inconveniences that let me share in life's inevitable, occasional calamity.†   (source)
  • "What a calamity!" he wrote to his wife.†   (source)
  • Precarious existence in peace and calamities during war.†   (source)
  • The would-be mages, however, men who somehow had come into a degree of magical prowess, whether they had found a scroll or a master's spellbook or some relic, were often the perpetrators of colossal calamities.†   (source)
  • Mike could laugh with voder, a horrible sound, but reserved that for something really funny, say a cosmic calamity.†   (source)
  • The network was only just beginning to grasp the scope of the calamity that had befallen Washington.†   (source)
  • Despite the fact that the attacks had been a calamity beyond imagination, entrenched political groups had resisted, for nearly two years, any major changes in industrial and environmental policy.†   (source)
  • The delightful room, the unexpected and farcical costumery, the beer, Nathan's demonstrative warmth and eagerness to make amends, Sophie's calamitous effect on my heart—all these had wiped out my will power.†   (source)
  • We have in the past been forced into reluctant change by weather, calamity, and plague.†   (source)
  • To his sister the sneeze was a calamity.†   (source)
  • She was used to these calamitous stories; she said they wore her to a frazzle.†   (source)
  • At dusk the drums of calamity began; their grave, throbbing rhythm came clearly through the night, throughout the night, each beat, each tattoo, echoing the mighty impotence of our human endeavour.†   (source)
  • Those Kansas newspapers and political leaders who had bitterly denounced him in earlier years praised Ross for his stand against legislative mob rule: "By the firmness and courage of Senator Ross," it was said, "the country was saved from calamity greater than war, while it consigned him to a political martyrdom, the most cruel in our history…… Ross was the victimof a wild flame of intolerance which swept everything before it.†   (source)
  • She seems to think that all the calamities of the Pyncheons began from that quarrel with the wizard,   (source)
    calamities = disastrous events
  • Name any terms, reverend sir, even to the halving of my kingdom; but banish this calamity, spare the sun!   (source)
    calamity = disastrous event
  • He could not have fallen victim to any other sort of calamity.†   (source)
  • Events she herself witnessed foretold her cousin's calamity.†   (source)
  • Comet means a rare calamity will happen.†   (source)
  • It gave Chicago a light to hold against the gathering dark of economic calamity.†   (source)
  • 425 B.c.), whose real calamity is that he doesn't know himself.†   (source)
  • Yet I still didn't have any sense that calamity was around the corner.†   (source)
  • What we had here was worse: a triple calamity fallen on the house of these poor parents.†   (source)
  • How was it possible his sister had not fallen into some calamitous illness?†   (source)
  • I doubt such a calamity will come to pass, though.†   (source)
  • The Tijuana horsemen, long accustomed to calamity, wrote off the horses, picked up, and went on.†   (source)
  • It was obvious to Macon that Freddie now had news of another calamity.†   (source)
  • Typical of the criticism is what Alfred Sewell wrote in his book The Great Calamity.†   (source)
  • And I am the calamity that will change these slavers back into people, Dany had sworn to herself.†   (source)
  • There was no sign that he was aware of the calamity he'd caused.†   (source)
  • She already knew that calamity was inevitable.†   (source)
  • Then, with summer, came the two calamities for which the year 1793 would be forever remembered.†   (source)
  • OLUNDE A calamity for us, the entire people.†   (source)
  • It is not success, but calamity that we regard as the abnormal exception in human life.†   (source)
  • This would have prevented the calamities under which the people now live.†   (source)
  • "We are involved in the calamities of a civil war," he had said, and so it felt in New York.†   (source)
  • He was a veteran, meeting every calamity with a cheerful steadiness.†   (source)
  • Each calamity makes Lourdes feel her own sorrow, keeps her own pain fresh.†   (source)
  • I heard Almaz yell, and I tried to imagine what new calamity we were facing.†   (source)
  • Nothing exempts this part of the globe from the calamities that have befallen other parts of it.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Pritchard came over, sour-humored, because she didn't have anything calamitous to report.†   (source)
  • * "Because we're passing the float house of Calamity Bill, the hand-logger.†   (source)
  • Perhaps no less calamitous, but different.†   (source)
  • A week ago nothing more calamitous could have happened to the girl.†   (source)
  • There was the broken easy chair, and on the cot in the corner lay Calamity.†   (source)
  • Then Mark put on his cassock and said for Calamity a few very simple prayers.†   (source)
  • There's a good bit of agnostic in all of us, Calamity.†   (source)
  • It was too late for help and Mark knew it, and Calamity knew it also.†   (source)
  • Simply to be alive to watch the sun rise over the sparkling snowy hillside ought to have been the greatest treasure on earth, yet he could not appreciate it: His senses had been spiked by the calamity of losing his want.†   (source)
  • But I hoped something would be gained by spilling my soul in the calamity's immediate aftermath, in the roil and torment of the moment.†   (source)
  • In between that calamity and this, they had visited George III in London, published a newspaper, made baskets, led Oglethorpe through forests, helped Andrew Jackson fight Creek, cooked maize, drawn up a constitution, petitioned the King of Spain, been experimented on by Dartmouth, established asylums, wrote their language, resisted settlers, shot bear and translated scripture.†   (source)
  • The first character was simple enough, the English letter B. Louie knew that niju meant twenty and ku meant nine, though he didn't know that ku carried another meaning: pain, calamity, affliction.†   (source)
  • When Hurricane Ivan hit coastal Alabama and blew chaos and calamity into Marsha's life, she thought things were as bad as they could get.†   (source)
  • How neat, how elegant, not to waste any more lives, but to give the dangerous task to the boy who had already been marked for slaughter, and whose death would not be a calamity, but another blow against Voldemort.†   (source)
  • Despite the calamity that is my life right now, there's a warm sense of comfort surrounding me after being with him tonight.†   (source)
  • Older people in particular were susceptible to news of impending calamity as it was forecast on TV by grave men standing before digital radar maps or pulsing photographs of the planet.†   (source)
  • There had been changes made—there were now nine screens, and the CEs were encouraged to be delving far deeper with their clients, to reciprocate in far-reaching ways—but the work was essentially the same, and Mae found that she appreciated the rhythm of it, the almost meditative quality of doing something she knew in her bones, and she found herself being drawn to CE at times of stress or calamity.†   (source)
  • For the first time in years, the calamity on Skid Row is front and center, due in no small part to Nathaniel, whose story made it impossible to ignore.†   (source)
  • In some houses, half-naked men and women were trying to salvage whatever God willed from the flood, and Florentino Ariza had the impression that everyone's calamity had something to do with his own.†   (source)
  • —Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793.†   (source)
  • The boy walked next to his mother, holding her hand, still crying, and they seemed a picture of such amateurish sadness and calamity that I nearly started laughing--laughing not at the sadness but at the picture they made of it, at the disparity between their grief and its appearances.†   (source)
  • She saw nothing but calamity.†   (source)
  • It was about this time that a constable put his head round the door to give news that seemed at one with the calamity of the night.†   (source)
  • My life has been 101 calamities with at least half of them in the marriage department, but finally I got lucky in love, with Remy Fairley.†   (source)
  • The magnitude of this calamity was so far beyond anything I'd ever imagined that my brain simply shorted out and went dark.†   (source)
  • The loss of his teeth, on the other hand, did not result from a natural calamity but from the shoddy work of an itinerant dentist who decided to eradicate a simple infection by drastic means.†   (source)
  • Allen and Jones wrote their own pamphlet, A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in 1793, which described what the African-Americans of Philadelphia had done to help their fellow citizens during the epidemic.†   (source)
  • The throng of reporters, mostly Japanese, wanted a neatly scripted version of the calamity, replete with villains and heroes.†   (source)
  • What a surprise it was to ease my way between people at the outer edges of one of the largest clusters and discover that my own son was at the center of things, speaking in his new-found voice, his tone of enthusiasm for runaway calamity.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I really do think I owe the secret of my success to that little book I read long ago called How to Survive 101 Calamities.†   (source)
  • This was not represented to the boy as a punishment, the idea being to instruct his unconscious that future lapses would entail inconvenience and hard work; but he was bound to feel it as reproof as he stood at the vast stone sink which rose level to his chest, suds creeping up his bare arms to soak his rolled-up shirtsleeves, the wet sheets as heavy as a dead dog and a general sense of calamity numbing his will.†   (source)
  • Dr. Juvenal Urbino did not sleep at all on the night of his return; he was frightened by the darkness and the silence, and he said three rosaries to the Holy Spirit and all the prayers he could remember to ward off calamities and shipwrecks and all manner of night terrors, while a curlew that had come in through a half-closed door sang every hour on the hour in his bedroom.†   (source)
  • There was a very real fear that the Taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid, risking further lives, to say nothing of jeopardizing the opportunity for other climbers to reach the summit.†   (source)
  • Even before the calamitous outcome of the 1996 premonsoon climbing season, the proliferation of commercial expeditions over the past decade was a touchy issue.†   (source)
  • The innocent yellow train that was to bring so many ambiguities and certainties, so many pleasant and unpleasant moments, so many changes, calamities, and feelings of nostalgia to Macondo.†   (source)
  • I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.†   (source)
  • Attempting to convince her otherwise would only lead her to imagine calamities far worse than what had actually occurred.†   (source)
  • Booth's achievement is described in the Richmond papers as "the most deplorable calamity, which has ever befallen the people of the United States."†   (source)
  • And still others sided with neither opinion, but rather descended into a sullen black anger directed at everyone who had brought about this calamity.†   (source)
  • Any war now would be calamitous for the United States and must be avoided at almost any cost, he wrote another day.†   (source)
  • She continually huddled the light cape together at the neck with tremulous, unsteady fingers; and it was characteristic of these two that, although the woman had heard of the calamity at the Victory mill the night before, and knew that Shade came directly from the Himes home, she made no inquiry as to the welfare of Deanie, and he offered no information.†   (source)
  • He is not the sort of man who weeps at calamity, but the devastated look on his face is clear for all to see.†   (source)
  • This was a calamity he had not foreseen, and he wanted to bust his roommates' heads open with his fists or pick them up, each in turn, by the seats of their pants and the scruffs of their necks and pitch them out once and for all into the dank, rubbery perennial weeds growing between his rusty soupcan urinal with nail holes in the bottom and the knotty-pine squadron latrine that stood like a beach locker not far away.†   (source)
  • One party blamed the president for the calamity that had befallen America, the other blamed his predecessor.†   (source)
  • She was used to seeing their transparent silhouettes gliding down the hallways of her parents' house, making noise in the wardrobes and appearing in people's dreams to predict calamities or lottery prizes.†   (source)
  • If you hear any condemning us for what we have done, tell them for me and for Sherman's Army, that 'we found here the authors of all the calamities that have befallen this nation …. and that their punishment is light when compared with what justice demanded.'†   (source)
  • Andrew Mwenda, a Ugandan, complained about the calamitous consequences of "the international cocktail of good intentions.†   (source)
  • Just as during the insomnia plague, as Ursula came to remember during those days, the calamity itself inspired defenses against boredom.†   (source)
  • The next morning, Lourdes scours the newspapers for calamities as she dunks sticky buns into her café con leche.†   (source)
  • Unaware of the restless circle in which she moved, of the unbearable state of intimate calamity that she provoked as she passed by, Remedios the Beauty treated the men without the least bit of malice and in the end upset them with her innocent complaisance.†   (source)
  • To private and domestic sorrow is added a prospect of public calamity for our country…… What is before us Heaven only knows.†   (source)
  • Nor have I any doubt, that as far as their power extends, they will inflict every species of calamity upon us.†   (source)
  • When the weather changed, she had new calamities to complain about: the mud in the courtyard, the abbreviated days—it was dark at five and there was nothing to do but face the long, solitary night—the wind, and the winter colds, which she countered with eucalyptus plasters that were powerless to keep the family from infecting each other in an endless chain.†   (source)
  • The federal Constitution reduces the risk of a calamity for which no possible constitution can provide a cure.†   (source)
  • It was as though the downfall of Abigail's brother William were repeating itself, and the family returned to the old ways of keeping "calamity" private.†   (source)
  • The first sign of that calamitous inheritance was revealed on her third vacation, when Meme appeared at the house with four nuns and sixty-eight classmates whom she had invited to spend a week with her family on her own Initiative and without any previous warning.†   (source)
  • But most of all—and she'd been resisting this—she couldn't accept the fact that Sister Mary Joseph Praise, sweet Sister, who should have been standing, gowned, masked, and scrubbed, a beacon of calm in this calamity, instead lay all but lifeless on the table, her skin porcelain white and her lips drained of all color.†   (source)
  • It had become an armed camp, and thousands of people—perhaps a third of the population—had fled, fearing it was soon to be the scene of terrible calamity.†   (source)
  • When the table was still raised up on bricks and the chairs put on planks so that those at the table would not get their feet wet, she still served with linen tablecloths and fine chinaware and with lighted candles, because she felt that the calamities should not be used as a pretext for any relaxation in customs.†   (source)
  • Calamity faced the country.†   (source)
  • She finally complied out of fear of being charged with protracting the public calamities and endangering the outcome of the war.†   (source)
  • "Any calamity inflicted by the hand of Providence, it would become me in silence to submit to," she wrote some weeks later, "but when I behold misery and distress, disgrace and poverty brought upon a family by intemperance, my heart bleeds at every pore."†   (source)
  • Let's shed a tear for the calamities that result from mankind's adverse opinions and selfish passions.†   (source)
  • She would think him mad were he to describe "the calamities that slavery was likely to produce in the country," he wrote to Louisa Catherine.†   (source)
  • If defense of the community makes it necessary to have an army large enough to threaten its liberty, this is one of those calamities that can't be prevented or cured.†   (source)
  • Yet, he could not help foresee a tragic outcome, in that a single legislative assembly, as chosen by the French, could only mean "great and lasting calamities."†   (source)
  • But to those who believe we will experience our share of the changes and calamities that have fallen to other nations, they are entitled to serious attention.†   (source)
  • It was the explicit language of the first magistrate of the nation, disclosing to his fellow citizens the honest sentiments of his heart, expressing with proper feeling and sensibility the wrongs done to his injured country, and his determination to attempt to obtain redress; while at the same time it manifested humane anxiety to avert the calamities of war by temperance and negotiations.†   (source)
  • Cal caught a feeling--a feeling of calamity, of destruction in the air, and a weight of sickness overwhelmed him.†   (source)
  • And whatever extraneous influence the tannery may have exercised, the calamities of the land belong to it alone, born of wind and rain and weather, immensities not to be tempered by man or his creations.†   (source)
  • I want to emphasize that we would have expressed our enmity toward Jews even if our family had not suffered a terrible calamity.†   (source)
  • I sit here in the hours just before dawn listening to the crickets and contemplating her dismal artistry for the third morning running, wondering at the calamity that has happened to me.†   (source)
  • For a variety of vague reasons I couldn't bring myself to tell the truth about our calamitous stand-off, this scratching match between two virgins.†   (source)
  • Besides the Jews and the Home Army fighters on the train, there was a contingent of Poles—Warsaw citizens of both sexes, numbering around two hundred—who had been picked up by the Gestapo in one of their spasmodic but ruthless tapankas, the victims in this case being guilty of nothing more than the calamitous luck to be caught on the wrong street at the wrong hour.†   (source)
  • Mark sat by Calamity through the deep night, until the hand he held slipped from his, and the period between breaths grew longer and longer.†   (source)
  • Two of the loggers helped put Calamity in the box, and carry it to the aft of the boat, and lash it down.†   (source)
  • I think you've broken a hip, Calamity.†   (source)
  • By radio-telephone he managed at last to reach his friend, the sergeant, and tell him what had happened, and ask permission to bring the body of Calamity for cremation, and this he was given.†   (source)
  • There was the table with its ancient oil cloth cover, and the coffee pot, doubtless half full of grounds, waiting for Calamity to toss in a handful of coffee and boil it up again.†   (source)
  • At sixty-five, Calamity climbed four thousand feet each day straight up the mountain side to cut his timber, and three times he had ridden his gear down into the chuck.†   (source)
  • When the little seaplane lifted and was gone, Mark turned back to his boat, checked the oil and water, and started to Knight's Inlet to keep his promise to Calamity Bill.†   (source)
  • Each day Mark and Jim set out early to take Christmas to the hand-logger and his family, to Calamity Bill, and the remote camps, and to the other villages.†   (source)
  • After the blessing Jim struck eight bells to mark the end of the watch and loosed the line, and Calamity started his last rough journey to what he had always called the happy logging country.†   (source)
  • Now, beside the compass, he placed the map he had taken from under Calamity's pillow, watching for the narrow finger of the sea on the left side of the inlet, found and entered it, slowing the boat until it barely moved, seeking the cove Calamity had marked with a cross.†   (source)
  • "Calamity wouldn't be separated from them in life," he said gently, "and I don't think he'd want to change now," and for an instant a bit of laughter rose in the solemn eyes beneath the knit caps in all the toughened faces, and was instantly squelched.†   (source)
  • How many times he had stopped to hide out a gale or to chart, and always Calamity had taken out the carved walrus tusk which was the cribbage board, and always he had said, "Just one game, Mark, while I put on a mite of supper."†   (source)
  • If he skeletal crew in the nearest camp had picked up the news of Calamity's death on the radiotelephone and, feeling It unseemly that he go on his last journey tied In an old tarpaulin, they had put together a proper box to hold him.†   (source)
  • When Mark stopped to ask how things were, the reply never varied, "Calamitous," and when Calamity Bill asked if he might come aboard, Mark's reply never varied either, "Yes, if you take off your cork boots."†   (source)
  • "Calamity, my friend," he thought, "you have had a funeral finer than a king's and this is the way it ought to be, and I have seen it once," and he started the engine and went on up the finger-ling to its end and anchored there for the night.†   (source)
  • Mark and Jim spent five days in the other villages and on the way home, when they went through Whale Pass and could see the white Kingcome Mountains, they passed the A-frame on Calamity's float, and, as he always did, Mark looked to see if smoke was coming from Calamity's little shack.†   (source)
  • Here he gave the ashes of Calamity to the sea, and when he came to the last words of the committal, "Rest eternal grant unto him, O Lord," he heard the echo of the words come back to him from across the narrow channel, softly and eerily, as if from another world.†   (source)
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